Holly Loveday   Qikiqtaaluk or, Baffin Island   I move beyond the fact of you, but lay atop my suitcase on a 5th avenue sidewalk holding everything to do […]

  Teresa Mignolli       Airports and Supermarkets   i At airports passengers meet and some fall in love and some fall ill. ii I met you at the supermarket […]

  Pietro Bordi       Morning Sailing   Dawn comes, casts a light, disappears in overcast. On your hand I count the seconds it reveals itself. We climbed for this: […]

  Claudia Macey-Dare       The Northern line at 9:52   I wanted you to write to me, while I waited for the 9:30 train. No 9:44, not Euston, but […]

  Isobel Lewis-Jarvis       Language is a bowl of eel noodle soup   Eyes squint at the menu, sprawled with inky strokes of fish hooks; I try to negotiate […]

  Florence Sandelson       Desert Island   Once my grandfather was on Desert Island Discs. Your voice came out of the radio dad had dusted off and propped up […]

  Maleeha Mir       Southend on Sea, 2018   It’s hard to believe they’d be happy to sit there on plastic red chairs, ready to be thrown away by […]